Good news from bad #2

After [Martin Luther] King’s house was bombed in 1956, the clergyman applied in Alabama for a concealed carry permit. Local police, loathe to grant such permits to African-Americans, deemed him “unsuitable” and denied his application. Consequently, King would end up leaving the firearms at home.

The good news:

In 1959…, King made a pilgrimage to India to study the principles of satyagraha, and he was moved by the experience. [As a result of this], for himself, King claimed nonviolence as a “way of life,” and he maintained his resolve under conditions that would make many others falter.

In other words, the discrimination that disallowed MLK to carry a pistol allowed him room in his heart for nonviolent resistance.

Takei [has built] a social-media audience specifically to draw attention to his causes: seeking rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and reminding Americans about the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans, including Takei and his family, during World War II.

The actor, who played the original Sulu on Star Trek, has about one million Twitter followers, and about six million likes:” on his Facebook page.

House Republicans are currently advancing an act… HR 7 [that] could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims.

The good news:

It probably won’t pass the House, it definitely wont pass the Senate. Even if it somehow got through Congress, the President would not sign it.

And you get more evidence on whether there is a “war on women.”

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The bad news:

Skier Lindsey Vonn is out of the Olympics with a knee injury.

The good news:

This gave her permission to get the knee surgery she needed. It forces NBC to come up with a more creative narrative than Vonn’s Olympic comeback. Other skiers will now have a chance. And we won’t have to read about Vonn’s boyfriend, Tiger Woods.

At UC, 1971, ’72, upon hearing the tell-tale chanting approaching, people in the dorms would fill balloons with water, and at the appropriate moment demonstrate the truth behind that fabled Berkeley tolerance.

Or so I’m told. Is true that sometimes we of the GOP are our own worst enemies. Wouldn’t you think we’d realize that any IRS audits of rape
victims would focus on conservative women?

Oh, the irony. Why, even Sarah could figure this out.

Polar Vortex II. Here comes the sophomore slump. All the good stuff,
years in the making, went on “Meet The Polar Vortex.” Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Big Chris promised to make both teams welcome in the Bridgegate State. By thinning the stadium air for Denver. And by artificially increasing the decibel count for Seattle.